We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

"Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this." ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

New evidence reveals the Milky Way’s black hole once erupted, genes hide mutation hot spots, and AI accelerates sodium ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space telescope shows that might not always have been the case.

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

Researchers are finding out more about a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, discovering that it has been leaking gases for several thousand years and is not the sleeping ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...